dame joan hammond (1912-1966)

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DAME JOAN HILDA HOOD HAMMOND (1912-1996)

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Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond, DBE, CMG (24 May 1912 – 26 November 1996) was a New

Zealand born Australian operatic soprano, singing coach and champion golfer.

She toured widely, and became noted particularly for her Puccini roles, and appeared in the major

opera houses of the world – the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala, the Vienna State

Opera and the Bolshoi. Her fame in Britain came not just from her stage appearances but from her

recordings.

A prolific artist, Hammond's repertoire encompassed Verdi, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Massenet,

Beethoven, as well as folk song, art song, and lieder. She returned to Australia for concert tours in

1946, 1949 and 1953, and starred in the second Elizabethan Theatre Trust opera season in 1957.

She undertook world concert tours between 1946 and 1961.

She became patron and a life member of the Victorian Opera Company (since 1976, the Victorian

State Opera – VSO), and was the VSO's artistic director from 1971 until 1976 and remained on the

board until 1985. Working with the then General Manager, Peter Burch, she invited the young

conductor Richard Divall to become the company's Musical Director in 1972.

She joined the Victorian Council of the Arts, was a member of the Australia Council for the Arts

opera advisory panel, and was an Honorary Life Member of Opera Australia. She was important to

the success of both the VSO and Opera Australia.

Hammond embarked on a second career as a voice teacher after her performance career ended.

In 1975, she was appointed the head of the voice faculty at the Victorian College of the Arts,

where she remained until her retirement seventeen years later in 1992. In that time she trained an

extraordinary number of Australian singers who had successful careers in Australia and on the

international stage. Among her notable pupils is soprano Cheryl Barker.

Printed materials in the PROMPT collection include programs and printed ephemera such as

brochures, leaflets, tickets, etc. Theatre programs are taken as the prime documentary evidence of

Dame Joan Hammond (1912-1966) 2

a performance by Joan Hammond. In a few cases however, the only evidence of a performance is

a piece of printed ephemera. In these cases the type of piece is identified, eg, brochure.

The list is based on imperfect holdings, and is updated as gaps in the Library’s holdings are filled.

Unless otherwise stated, all entries are based on published programs in the PROMPT collection.

The Dame Joan Hilda Hood Hammond PROMPT files may be accessed through the Library’s

Special Collections Reading Room by eCallslip request: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3528398

Programs in the National Library’ PROMPT collection are arranged chronologically / by

entrepreneur and/or management company name, etc.

1. Australian Performances by Hammond

2. Overseas performances by Hammond

then individually listed, chronologically by performance as follows:

Date (day and month); City

Name of production or performer

Headline performers etc.

An index to staged productions and appearances by staff performers is provided at the end of the

document. This document is also keyword searchable [add content to suit material.].

The National Library’s collection also includes:

Other programs of Hammond performances within the Royal Opera (Covent Garden) PROMPT file

▪ Books and biographical cuttings

▪ Pictures and posters

▪ Oral history interview

▪ Joan Hood Hammond and Joan Hammond information and resources listed within the TROVE

discovery service

▪ Newspaper articles about Dame Joan Hammond can found in Trove

▪ Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT) for indexed journal articles

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See also Digitised Australian newspaper and magazine coverage of Joan Hammond (including

promotions and reviews).

1946 14 July; [Town Hall], Melbourne (Victoria)

Melbourne Civic Concert: Joan Hammond

Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert.

“Under the auspices of the Melbourne City Council”

1 program

1946 20 July; Theatre Royal, Hobart (Tasmania)

The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond

Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert

1 program

1946 14 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)


By arrangement with Harold Hold Ltd. Associate Artist (pianist) Raymond Lambert

2 programs




1 program

1946 19 September; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)



2 programs

1946 19 November; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)

Joan Hammond [proceeds to the Australian Red Cross Society]

Featuring Raymond Lambert at the piano

1 program

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=%22joan+hammond%22+singer



The N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond

Accompanist: Lindley Evans.

“In the first of her ‘Thank You’ concerts”

1 program


The N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan Hammond

Accompanist: Lindley Evans.

“In the final of her ‘Thank You’ concerts”

1 program

1949 26 August; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria)

Joan Hammond Concert

Accompanist: Bernice Lehmann.

1 program

1953 23 June; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)

The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond O.B.E.

Associate Artist: Walter Susskind.

1 program




1 program




1 program

1953 4 July; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)


Associate artist: Walter Susskind.

1 program


1953 7 July; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)


Associate artist: Walter Susskind.

2 programs

1953 1,4,6,8 August; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria)

The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the World famous

soprano Joan Hammond

At the Piano: Walter Susskind

3 flyers

1953 19-20 August; Town Hall, Sydney (New South Wales)

The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Sydney Symphony

Orchestra

In the eighth concert of the 1953 Subscription Series Red Season.

Conductor: Eugene Goossens Soloist: Joan Hammond

1 program

1953 28 August; Adelaide Town Hall (Adelaide)

Australian Broadcasting Commission presents Joan Hammond

with Walter Susskind.

1 program

1953 12 September; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria)

The Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the Victorian Symphony

Orchestra

In the seventh of the 1953 Subscription Concerts - Red Season.

Conductor: Juan Jose Castro; Soloist: Joan Hammond

1 program. 1 flyer

1953 17 September; Town Hall, Melbourne (Victoria)

Special Orchestral Concert with the Victorian Symhony Orchestra

Conductor: Juan Jose Castro; Soloist: Joan Hammond

1 flyer

1957 October; Princess Theatre (Melbourne)

Othello/Verdi

The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust by arrangement with Garnet H. Carroll

presents the Elizabethan Trust Opera Company with the Victorian Symphony


Orchestra.

Joan Hammond stars as Desdemona, with Ronald Dowd as Othello.

1 program

1960 21 May; Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney (New South Wales)

Salome/Strauss


1 program

1940 23 March; Queen’s Hall (London)

Harold Holt presents a Special Concert

The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, with

Hammond as soloist with Tilly Connely and John Tobin.

1942 8 May; Liverpool Empire (Liverpool)

La Traviata/Verdi

The Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company under the direction of H.B. Phillips,

featuring Hammond as Violetta Valery.

Note: early use of “Royal” Carl Rosa Opera Co., and unusual format (usually seen

for variety programmes)

1942 10 May; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Harold Holt Sunday Concerts, Sullivan Centenary Festival

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood, featuring Joan

Hammond, Henry Wendon, Astra Desmond, Denis Noble, Muriel Brunskill,

Leyland White, with the Alexandra Choir.

1942 14 May; Cambridge Theatre (London)

International Festival of Music, seventh concert

Presented by Jay Pomeroy, featuring Joan Hammond, Dino Borgioli, Daria Bayan,

Novakowsi, Kiriloff, conducted by Charles Hambourg.

1942 28 July; Royal Albert Hall (London)

BBC Promenade Concerts

Featuring Joan Hammond and Cyril Smith with the BBC Symphony Orchestra


conducted by Sir Henry Wood.

1942 Commencing 2 November; Wimbledon Theatre (London)

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co.

Featuring Joan Hammond, Gwen Catley, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Dennis

Noble; under the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 season program

1942 8 November; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Harold Holt Sunday Concerts

Featuring Joan Hammond and Moiseiwitsch with the London Philharmonic

Orchestra, conducted by Henry J. Wood.

1942 Commencing 9 November; Wimbledon Theatre (London)


Featuring Joan Hammond, Gwen Catley, Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Dennis

Noble; under the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 season program

1943 Commencing 9 February; Winter Garden Theatre (London)

La Traviata/Verdi

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Violetta Valery, under

the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 program

1943 Commencing 18 February; Winter Garden Theatre (London)

La Boheme/Puccini

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Mimi, under the direction

of H.B. Phillips

1 program

1945 Commencing 4 June; Liverpool Empire (Liverpool)

La Traviata/Verdi; La Tosca/Puccini

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Violetta Valery and

Floria Tosca, under the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 program


1945 9 August; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Henry Wood Promenade Concert

Featuring Sir Adrian Boult conducting, was originally to feature Joan Hammond,

but was replaced by Joy McArden ‘due to indisposition’.

1 program

1945 7 December; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Concert of Austrian Music

In aid of starving Austrian children and Austrian victims of Nazi concentration

camps. Featuring Sir Adrian Boult conducting, with Joan Hammond and Alfred

Blumen.

1 program, ticket attached.

1945 Commencing 10 December; Wimbledon Theatre (London)

La Tosca/Puccini

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Co., featuring Joan Hammond as Floria Tosca

1 program

1946 14 January; The Vic (Burnley)

La Tosca/Puccini

Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company

Hammond as Floria Tosca

Under the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 program

1946 One week commencing 21 January; New Opera House (Blackpool)

Royal Carl Rosa Opera

Various production featuring

Under the direction of H.B. Phillips

1 program

1946 17 February; Capitol Theatre, Cardiff (Wales)

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra

Featuring Joan Hammond and Frank Titterton.

1 program

1946 3 March; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Henry Wood Birthday Concert

A performance of Beethoven’s Solemn Mass, sponsored by The Daily Telegraph


in aid of the Henry Wood National Memorial Fund.

Featuring Joan Hammond, Gladys Ripley, Parry Jones, George Pizzey, with the

Huddersfield Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dr. Malcolm

Sargent

1 program

1946 19 April; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Messiah/Handel

Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra with Joan Hammond, Muriel Brunskill,

Henry Wendon, Owen Brannigan

1 program

1946 12 May; Empire Theatre, Cardiff (Wales)

Raymond Sinclair presents the Boyd Neel Orchestra

Featuring Joan Hammond with Irene Beaver and Ronald Settle.

1 program

1946 12 June; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Requiem Mass/Verdi

Featuring The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Barbirolli, with an

insert noting “ Owing to indisposition Edna Hobson is prevented from appearing

tonight. At very short notice Joan Hammond has kindly undertaken to sing in her

place.”

1 program

1947 5 February; Theatre Royal, Churchgate Bolton (Greater Manchester)

Faust/Gounod

Featuring Joan Hammond as Marguerite

1 program

1947 24 August; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon)

Shakespeare Festival 1947

Sunday evening concert, first in a series, featuring Joan Hammond (soprano), Ivor

Newton (piano), Leon Goossens (oboe)

1 program

1948 [January?]; Lewisham Hippodrome (Lewisham)

La Traviata/Verdi

The Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company featuring Joan Hammond as Violetta Valery


1 program

1948 17 April; Royal Albert Hall (London)

‘Daily Herald’ Opera Promenade Concert

Featuring Joan Hammond, Luigi Infantino, Sheila de Haan, Redvers Llewellyn

2 programs

1948 Commencing 24 July – 18 September; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

The 54th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, featuring the BBC

Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. Hammond featured

as soloist on August 28 and September 17. Other Australian artists featured:

Eileen Joyce, William Herbert and Harold Williams.

1 program

1948 29 August; Royal Albert Hall (London)

A Programme of Viennese Music

Leslie Shrier presents (under the auspices of the Apollo Concert Society)...

Hammond featured as soloist with Arminski, conducted by Walter Susskind.

1 program

1948 12 September; Pier Pavillion (Worthing)

Joan Hammond with the Worthing Municipal Orchestra

Featuring Joan Hammond, James Kershaw and the Worthing Municipal Orchestra

1 program, signed by Joan Hammon and James Kershaw

1948 9 October; Royal Albert Hall (London)


Featuring Joan Hammond, Marko Rothmuller, conducted by Walter Goehr

2 programs

1948 6 October; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London)

Il Trovatore/Verdi

Covent Garden Opera featuring Joan Hammond as Leonora

1 program

1948 6 December; Grosvenor Hall (Dublin)

Joan Hammond


Hammond as soloist. Accompanied by Jeannie Reddin

Note: Hammond is given a bio in this program, mentioning her Australian origins

and her war effort.

1 program



Featuring Joan Hammond, Walter Goehr, Eugene Conley

1 program, signed by Hammond

1949 29 April; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London)

Fidelio/Beethoven

Featuring Joan Hammond, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf

1 program

1949 2 June; Royal Albert Hall (London)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Featuring Joan Hammond, Constance Shacklock, Richard Lewis, Gianpiero

Malaspina, and the London Philharmonic Choir conducted by Victor de Sabata

1 program

1949 4 – 12 June; Haringay Indoor Arena (London)

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Eight Concerts for the People by arrangement with the London Music Festival

Featuring Joan Hammond as a soloist

1 program, 1 flyer

1949 20 – 23 June; Philharmonic Hall (Liverpool)

Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer Series):

Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, First Summer Industrial Concert featuring Joan

Hammond as soloist, conductor Hugo Rignold

1 program

1950 January; [Tour from Aberdeed to Cardiff]

Joan Hammond, a Lynford-Joel presentation

[16 week tour of 48 provincial towns, “from Aberdeen to Cardiff”according to

newspaper content]

1 program


1950 27 October; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London)

Aida/Verdi

Featuring the Covent Garden Opera with Joan Hammond as Aida

1 program


Joan Hammond with the London National Orchestra

Conducted by Walter Susskind

1 program

1951 31 January; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London)

Don Carlos

The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Joan Hammond as Elizabeth de Valois

1 program


Aida/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond as Aida

1 program


Madam Butterfly/Puccini

Featuring Joan Hammond as Madam Butterfly

1 program

1951 [22 April]; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-Upon-Avon)

Festival of Britain Sunday Concerts

“...first concert in the Festival of Britain Series...”

Hammond as soloist.

2 flyers

1951 12 May; Royal Festival Hall (London)

Joan Hammond: a Festival of Britain Concert

“Mark Lynford and John Joel (Lynford-Joel promotions Ltd. present...”

Accompanist: Walter Susskind

1 program


1951 14 May; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London)

Don Carlos/Verdi

Featuring the Sadler’s Wells Opera with Hammond as Elizabeth de Valois

1 program

1951 28 May – 2 June; Davis Theatre (London)

Six Festival of Britain Concerts

Featuring Joan Hammond and Stanford Robinson performing at the second

concert, 29 May 1951, with the BBC Orchestra and BBC Chorus

1 program

1951 30 May; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London)

Don Carlos

The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Joan Hammond as Elizabeth de Valois

1 program

1951 27 October; Theatre Royal (Dublin)

Joan Hammond

Hammond as soloist. Accompanied by Jeannie Reddin

1 program

1952 29 – 30 March; Free Trade Hall (Manchester)

The Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52

Featuring Joan Hammond, Walter Goehr, Eugene Conley

1 program

1952 20 August; City Hall (Sheffield)

The Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52

Featuring Joan Hammond, conducted by George Weldon

1 program

1952 10 December; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Joan Hammond and the London Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Stanford Robinson

Notes management of Lynford-Joel Ltd.

1 program


1953 Commencing 24 May until 7 June; Royal Festival Hall (London)

Eight Coronation Concerts

Brochure listig the eight concerts to celebrate the Coronation of H.M. Queen

Elizabeth II presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in association with the

Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation and the London

City Council.

Hammond listed as principal performer in third concert held on 27 May 1953.

1 brochure



Third concert featuring the BBC Choral Society, the BBC Syphony Orchestra,

Joan Hammond, John Cameron, William Primrose, conducted by Sir Malcolm

Sargent.

1 program for third concert only

1953 30 December; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London)

Tosca/Puccini

Featuring Joan Hammond as Floria Tosca

1 program

1954 24 February; Davis Theatre (Croydon)

Aida/Verdi

Featuring the Covent Garden Opera with Joan Hammond as Aida, with Joan

Sutherland in the role of Priestess.

Significant as both the “Dame Joans” performed together (prior to either becoming

Dame)

Note advert on rear cover listing seven operas to be performed at Croydon, one of

these is Madam Butterfly, directed by Robert Helpmann.

1 program

1954 Commencing 25 March; Palace Theatre (Manchester)

Aida/Verdi

Featuring Hammond as Aida

1 program

1954 Commencing 5 April; Theatre Royal (Birmingham)

Aida/Verdi

Featuring Hammond as Aida

[Karl Levett notes that the enclosed newspaper clipping tells of drama involved


with this performance, James Johnston playing Radames was ill, and Van der

Zalm was flown in from Holland. Hammond switched into Italian to sing with der

Zalm, with very pleasing results for Hammond. “I doubt if she has ever done better

work...This must surely go with the great Aidas of all time”.]

1 program


Requiem Mass/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond as soprano, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

and Choir, conducted by Efrem Kurtz

1 program


Requiem Mass/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond as soprano, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

and Choir, conducted by Efrem Kurtz

1 program

1954 7 November; Royal Festival Hall (London)

Joan Hammond, Philharmonia Orchestra, Norman Del Mar

Presented by the Comus Art Society Ltd.

1 program

1955 9 January; Royal Albert Hall (London)

International Celebrity Concert

Featuring Joan Hammond, Richard Lewis, Constance Shacklock, Norman Walker

2 programs

1955 Commencing 12 March; King’s Theatre (Glasgow)

Aida/Verdi

Featuring The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra

Hammond as Aida

1 program

1955 15 March; Edinburgh Empire (Edinburgh)

Aida/Verdi


Hammond as Aida


1 program

1955 Commencing 29 March; Palace Theatre (Manchester)

Aida/Verdi


Hammond as Aida

1 program


London Symphony Orchestra

Last of a series of seven concerts of music by Beethoven.

Featuring Willem De Mont, Joan Hammond, Norman Procter, William McAlpine,

Owen Brannigan, Alexandra Choir conducted by Anthony Collins.

1 program,


BBC Symphony Orchestra

Featuring Joan Hammond, Gladys Ripley, Richard Lewis, Norman Walker

1 program

1955 1 November; Town Hall (Birmingham)

Joan Hammond

Featuring Joan Hammond with Ivor Newton at the piano

1 program


Requiem/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond, Constance Shacklock, Walter Midgely, Nowakowski

and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent

1 program

1957 3 February; Royal Albert Hall (London)

Sunday Orchestra Concert

Featuring Joan Hammond and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by

George Weldon

1 program, signed by Hammond


1957 3 April; Leeds Town Hall (Leeds)

Requiem/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond, Constance Shacklock, Walter Midgely, Nowakowski,

Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Malcolm Sargent

1 program

1957 12 June; Royal Festival Hall (London)

The Apostles/Elgar

BBC Home Service presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. Featuring Joan Hammond, Marjorie Thomas,

William Herbert, John Cameron, Owen Brannigan, and Richard Standen.

1 program

1958 7 – 25th March; various venues

Joan Hammond (tour)

Programme for tour, featuring Joan Hammond with Ivor Newton at the piano.

Cities include Nottingham, Birmingham, Leicester, Sheffield, and Manchester.

1958 12 March, Royal Festival Hall (London)

Damnation of Faust/Berlioz

BBC Symphony Concerts, Featuring Joan Hammond, Richard Lewis, James

Milligan, Owen Brannigan, the BBC Chorus, The BBC Choral Society, conducted

by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

1 program

1958 23 May, Royal Festival Hall (London)

Joan Hammond, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Susskind

S.A. Gorlinsky presents Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter

Susskind

1 program

1958 13 September; Royal Albert Hall (London)


Featuring Joan Hammond, Charles Craig, Harold Blackburn, Eric Harrison, The

BBC Chorus and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Vilem Tausky

2 programs, 1 of which is signed by Hammond and Charles Craig



Messiah/Handel

Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society with

Joan Hammond, Norma Procter, Richard Lewis, Trevor Anthony and Anthony

Greir conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

1 program

1959 18 February; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London)

Rusalka/Dvorak

The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Hammond as Rusalka.

Also features advertising for Hammond’s recordings for HMV.

1 program

1959 11 March; Sadler’s Wells Theatre (London)

Rusalka/Dvorak

The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Hammond as Rusalka.

Also features advertising for Hammond’s recordings for HMV.

1 program

1959 31 March; Theatre Royal (Nottingham)


The Sadler’s Wells Opera featuring Hammond as Madam Butterfly, Cho-Cho San,

and Australian Kevin Miller in the role of Goro.

1 program

1959 25 November; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London)

Aida/Verdi

Hammond as Aida, and fellow Australian John Shaw as Amonasro.

Program contains adverts for Hammond’s recordings and one of Joan Sutherland

recommending Grundig tape recorders.

1 program

1960 20 January; Royal Festival Hall (London)

BBC Symphony Orchestra season 1959-60

Featuring Hammond, Marjorie Thomas, Walter Midgley, James Milligan, the BBC

Chorus, the BBC Choral Society and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by

Sir Malcolm Sargent.

1 program



Mass in D/Beethoven

Featuring The London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Choral Society with

Joan Hammond, Monica Sinclair, Walter Midgley, Trevor Anthony

1 program

1961 25 January; Royal Festival Hall (London)

Childhood of Christ/Berlioz

BBC Symphony Orchestra season, featuring Joan Hammond, Richard Lewis,

John Cameron, Joseph Rouleau, the BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society, BBC

Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

2 programs, 1 of which signed by Hammond and Cameron


Messiah/Handel

Featuring Joan Hammond, Norma Procter, William Herbert, James Milligan The

London Symphony conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

1 program (book of words)

1961 27 June; Australia House (London)

Recital by Joan Hammond

Australian Musical Association event in the presence of H.R.H. The Duchess of

Gloucester, featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton

Notes on reverse note other people present, including Lady Gowrie, Lady De

Lisle, Sir John Northcott, Sire Eric Harrison, Geoffrey Chard, Neil Easton, Betty

Smith, Lady Harrison

1 program

1961 12 November; Public Hall, Barrow-in-Furness (Cumbria)

Joan Hammond (soprano)

Organised by Her Majesty’s Theatre Repertory Club, Barrow-in-Furness

Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton

1 program, signed by Hammond on cover

1962 4 February; Royal Festival Hall (London)

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves, Joan Hammond

1 program


1962 17 May; Town Hall Cheltenham (Gloucestershire)

Celebrity Recital

Featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton.

1 program


For the Fallen/Elgar

Requiem/Verdi

Performance of the Royal Choral Society featuring Joan Hammond, Monica

Sinclair, William McAlpine, Victor Godfrey and The London Symphony conducted

by Sir Malcolm Sargent.

1 program (book of words)

1963 22 March; Town Hall (Huddersfield)

Requiem/Verdi

Featuring Joan Hammond, Monica Sinclair, Ronald Dowd, Victor Godfrey and the

Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent

1 program

1964 17 January; Royal; Festival Hall (London)

Concert in aid of the National Appeal Fund of the United Nations Association

Featuring Joan Hammond as soloist, Alan Loveday on violin, and Sir Adrian Boult

conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

1 program

1964 25 March; Free Trade Hall (Manchester)

An Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the Freedom From Hunger

Campaign

Featuring Joan Hammond accompanied by Ivor Newton.

Part of the 1963-64 Halle Season

1 season brochure

1965 28 March; Battersea Town Hall (London)

Miss Joan Hammond and the New Philharmonia Orchestra

Conducted by Charles Mackerras. Soloist: Ian Wilson, oboe.

1 ‘Winter Season’ brochure for Battersea Town Hall.


Index to performances

Aida/Verdi

1951 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,

London ...............................................................14

Aida/Verdi


London ...............................................................14

Aida/Verdi

1954 Davis Theatre, Croydon .............................17

Aida/Verdi

1954 Palace Theatre, Manchester .......................17

Aida/Verdi

1954 Theatre Royal, Birmingham ......................17

Aida/Verdi

1955 King’s Theatre, Glasgow ............................18

Aida/Verdi

1955 Edinburgh Empire, Edinburgh.................18

Aida/Verdi

1955 Palace Theatre, Manchester .......................18

Aida/Verdi


London ...............................................................21

Apostles, The/Elgar

1957 Royal Festival Hall, London ......................20

Australia House, London

1961 Recital by Joan Hammond ........................22

Australian Broadcasting Commission presents

Joan Hammond

1946 Theatre Royal, Hobart TAS .........................3

1946 Town Hall, Sydney NSW .............................3



1953 Town Hall, Adelaide SA ..............................6


Australian Broadcasting Commission presents

Joan Hammond O.B.E.

1953 Town Hall, Sydney NSW ........................ 4, 5

Australian Broadcasting Commission presents the

Sydney Symphony Orchestra



Victorian Symphony Orchestra

1953 Town Hall, Melbourne VIC .........................6


World famous soprano Joan Hammond

1953 Town Hall, Melborne VIC NSW ................5

Battersea Town Hall, London

1965 Miss Joan Hammond and the New

Philharmonia Orchestra ................................24

BBC Promenade Concerts

1942 Royal Albert Hall, London ..........................8

BBC Symphony Concerts –Damnation of

Faust/Berlioz


BBC Symphony Orchestra


BBC Symphony Orchestra season 1959-60


Boheme/Puccini

1943 Winter Garden Theatre, London ................8

Cambridge Theatre, London

1942 International Festival of Music, seventh

concert ..................................................................7

Capitol Theatre, Cardiff

1946 Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra ..............10

Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra

1946 Capitol Theatre, Cardiff .............................10

Celebrity Recital

1962 Town Hall Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

..............................................................................23

Childhood of Christ/Berlioz


City Hall, Sheffield

1952 Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 ..16

Concert in aid of the National Appeal Fund of the

United Nations Association


Concert of Austrian Music


Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert

1948 Royal Albert Hall, London ................. 11, 12

1949 Royal Albert Hall, London ........................12

Davis Theatre, Croydon

1951 Six Festival of Britain Concerts ...............15

1954 Aida/Verdi ......................................................17

Don Carlos/Verdi

1951 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London......... 14, 15

Don Carlos/Verdi

1951 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London................15

Edinburgh Empire, Edinburgh

1955 Aida/Verdi ......................................................18



Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney NSW

1957 Othello/Verdi ..................................................7

Empire Theatre, Cardiff


1946 Raymond Sinclair presents the Boyd Neel

Orchestra ...........................................................10

Faust/Gounod

1947 Theatre Royal, Bolton..................................11

Festival of Britain Sunday Concerts

1951 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-

Upon-Avon .......................................................14

Fidelio/Beethoven


London ...............................................................13

For the Fallen/Elgar


Free Trade Hall, Manchester

1952 Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52 ..15

1964 Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the

Freedom From Hunger Campaign ................24

Grosvenor Hall, Dublin

1948 Joan Hammond.............................................12

Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52

1952 City Hall, Sheffield ......................................16

Halle Concerts Society season 1951-52

1952 Free Trade Hall, Manchester .....................15

Haringay Indoor Arena, London

1949 Philadelphia Orchestra, The .....................13

Harold Holt presents a Special Concert

1940 Queen’s Hall, London ...................................7

Harold Holt Sunday Concerts


Harold Holt Sunday Concerts, Sullivan

Centenary Festival


Henry Wood Promenade Concert




1958 Royal Albert Hall, London ................. 10, 20

Il Trovatore/Verdi


London ...............................................................12

International Celebrity Concert


International Festival of Music, seventh concert

1942 Canbridge Theatre, London ........................7

Joan Hammon, a Lynford-Joel presentation

1950 tour, United Kingdom ................................13

Joan Hammond

1948 Grosvenor Hall, Dublin ..............................12

1951 Theatre Royal, Dublin .................................15

1955 Town Hall, Birmingham ............................19

Joan Hammond (soprano)

1961 Public Hall, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

..............................................................................22

Joan Hammond (U.K. tour)

1958 ...........................................................................20

Joan Hammond [proceeds to the Australian Red

Cross]


Joan Hammond and the London Symphony

Orchestra


Joan Hammond Concert


Joan Hammond with the London National

Orchestra


Joan Hammond with the Worthing Municipal

Orchestra

1948 Pier Pavillion, Worthing.............................12

Joan Hammond, a Festival of Britain Concert


Joan Hammond, Philharmonia Orchestra,

Norman Del Mar


Joan Hammond, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra,

Walter Susskind


King’s Theatre, Glasgow

1955 Aida/Verdi ......................................................18

Leeds Town Hall, Leeds

1957 Requiem/Verdi ...............................................19

Lewisham Hippodrome, Lewisham

1948 Traviata .........................................................11

Liverpool Empire, Liverpool

1942 Traviata/Verdi .................................................7

1945 Tosca/Puccini...................................................9

London Philharmonic Orchestra


London Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves,

Joan Hammond


London Symphony Orchestra




London ...............................................................14


1959 Theatre Royal, Nottingham .......................21

Mass in D/Beethoven


Melbourne Civic Concert Joan Hammond



Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer Series)

1949 Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool ...................13

Messiah/Handel




Miss Joan Hammond and the New Philharmonia

Orchestra

1965 Battersea Town Hall, London ...................24

N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan

Hammond


New Opera House, Blackpool

1946 Royal Carl Rosa Opera ..............................10

Operatic and Lieder Recital in aid of the Freedom

From Hunger Campaign

1964 Free Trade Hall, Manchester .....................24

Othello/Verdi

1957 Princess Theatre, Melbourne VIC ..............6

Palace Theatre, Manchester

1954 Aida/Verdi ......................................................17

1955 Aida/Verdi ......................................................18

Philadelphia Orchestra, The

1949 Haringay Indoor Arena, London .............13

Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool

1949 Merseyside Industrial Concerts (Summer

Series) .................................................................13

Pier Pavillion, Worthing

1948 Joan Hammond with the Worthing

Municipal Orchestra.......................................12

Princess Theatre, Melbourne VIC

1957 Othello/Verdi ..................................................6

Programme of Viennese Music


Public Hall, Barrow-in-Furness (Cumbria)

1961 Joan Hammond (soprano) .........................22

Queen’s Hall, London

1940 Harold Hold presents a Special Concert ..7

Raymond Sinclair presents the Boyd Neel

Orchestra

1946 Empire Theatre, Cardiff .............................10

Recital by Joan Hammond

1961 Australia House, London...........................22

Requiem Mass/Verdi


Requiem/Verdi


1957 Leeds Town Hall, Leeds .............................19



1963 Town Hall, Huddersfield ...........................23

Royal Albert Hall, London

1942 BBC Promenade Concerts ............................8

1942 Harold Holt Sunday Concerts ....................8

1942 Harold Holt Sunday Concerts, Sullivan

Centenary Festival ............................................7

1945 Concert of Austrian Music ..........................9

1945 Henry Wood Promenade Concert ..............9

1946 Messiah/Handel.............................................10

1946 Requiem Mass/Verdi ....................................11

1948 Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert

....................................................................... 11, 12

1948 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ..........11

1948 Programme of Viennese Music .................12

1949 Daily Herald Opera Promenade Concert

..............................................................................13

1949 London Philharmonic Orchestra .............13

1950 Joan Hammond with the London

National Orchestra .........................................14

1952 Joan Hammond and the London

Symphony Orchestra ......................................16

1954 Joan Hammond, Philharmonia Orchestra,

Norman Del Mar ..............................................18

1954 Requiem/Verdi ...............................................17

1955 International Celebrity Concert...............18

1957 Requiem/Verdi ...............................................19

1957 Sunday Orchestra Concert ........................19

1958 Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ... 10, 20

1959 Messiah/Handel.............................................20

1960 Mass in D/Beethoven ....................................22

1961 Messiah/Handel.............................................22

1962 For the Fallen/Elgar .....................................23

1962 Requiem/Verdi ...............................................23

Royal Carl Rosa Opera

1946 New Opera House, Blackpool ..................10


1942 Wimbledon Theatre, London ......................8

Royal Festival Hall, London

1951 Joan Hammond, a Festival of Britain

Concert ...............................................................15

1953 Eight Coronation Concerts........................16

1955 BBC Symphony Orchestra.........................19

1955 London Symphony Orchestra ...................19

1957 Apostles, The/Elgar ......................................20

1958 BBC Symphony Concerts –Damnation of

Faust/Berlioz ......................................................20

1958 Joan Hammond, Royal Philharmonic

Orchestra, Walter Susskind ..........................20

1960 BBC Symphony Orchestra season 1959-60

..............................................................................21

1961 Childhood of Christ/Berlioz .......................22


1962 London Philharmonic, Charles Groves,

Joan Hammond ................................................23

1964 Concert in aid of the National Appeal

Fund of the United nations Association ....23

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

1948 Il Trovatore/Verdi.........................................12

1949 Fidelio/Beethoven ..........................................13

1950 Aida/Verdi ......................................................14

1951 Aida/Verdi ......................................................14

1951 Madam Butterfly/Puccini ...........................14

1953 Tosca/Puccini .................................................16

1959 Aida/Verdi ......................................................21

Rusalka/Dvorak

1959 Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London................21

Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London

1951 Don Carlos/Verdi .................................... 14, 15

1959 Rusalka/Dvorak ............................................21

Salome/Strauss

1960 Elizabethan Theatre, Sydney NSW............7

Shakespeare Festival

1947 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-

upon-Avon ........................................................11

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-

Avon

1947 Shakesepeare Festival.................................11

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-Upon-

Avon

1951 Festival of Britain Sunday Concerts .....14

Six Festival of Britain Concerts

1951 Davis Theatre, Croydon .............................15

Special Orchestral Concert with the Victorian

Symhony Orchestra


Sunday Orchestra Concert


The Vic, Burnley

1946 Tosca .................................................................9

Theatre Royal, Birmingham

1954 Aida/Verdi ......................................................17

Theatre Royal, Bolton

1947 Faust/Gounod.................................................11

Theatre Royal, Dublin

1951 Joan Hammond.............................................15

Theatre Royal, Hobart TAS

1946 Australian Broadcasting Commission

presents Joan Hammond .................................3

Theatre Royal, Nottingham

1959 Madam Butterfly/Puccini ...........................21

Tosca

1946 The Vic, Burnley .............................................9

Tosca/Puccini


London ...............................................................16

Tosca/Puccini

1945 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool.......................9

1945 Wimbledon Theatre, London ......................9

Tour, United Kingdom

1950 Joan Hammond, a Lynford-Joel

presentation ......................................................13

Town Hall Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

1962 Celebrity Recital ..........................................23

Town Hall, Adelaide SA



Town Hall, Birmingham

1955 Joan Hammond.............................................19

Town Hall, Huddersifeld

1963 Requiem/Verdi ...............................................23

Town Hall, Melbourne VIC

1946 Melbourne Civic Concert Joan Hammond

................................................................................3

1949 Joan Hammond Concert ..............................4


presents the Victorian Symphony Orchestra

................................................................................6


presents the World famous soprano Joan

Hammond ...........................................................5

1953 Special Orchestral Concert with the

Victorian Symhony Orchestra ........................6

Town Hall, Sydney NSW


presents Joan Hammond ............................ 3, 4

1946 Joan Hammond [proceeds to the

Australian Red Cross].......................................4

1949 N.S.W. Ladies Golf Union present Joan

Hammond ...........................................................4




presents Joan Hammond O.B.E................. 4, 5


presents the Sydney Symphony Orchestra .6

Traviata

1948 Lewisham Hippodrome, Lewisham .......11

Traviata, La/Verdi.

1943 Winter Garden Theatre, London ................8

Traviata/Verdi


Traviata/Verdi


Wimbledon Theatre, London


1942 Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company ............8

1945 Tosca/Puccini...................................................9

Winter Garden Theatre, London

1943 Boheme/Puccini ...............................................8

1943 Traviata, La/Verdi..........................................8

dame joan hammond (1912-1966)

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